“Laws of Depravity” by Eriq La Salle should be on a fast track to Best Seller status. The line between legal and illegal is broad and readily discernible; the line between right and wrong is not so. This intense debut novel will have you pondering...

Patricia sees a man standing in the middle of the road and swerves to avoid him. She wrecks her car and wakes up on an alien spaceship as a prisoner of Travis 152. Travis thinks she has some connection to rebel leader William. After a...

"Erby’s Turn to Rake" by Christopher Epling is a delightful chapter book. The cover immediately caught my attention with its bright colors and odd looking creatures called Polliwogs. The other polliwogs were doing their chores while Erby lay in his bed sleeping. He heard them...

It was a bitter cold snowy night. The power lines were down throughout the area. Jake grabbed his tool belt and flashlight as he exited the cab of his snow cat. He was checking the meter when he first heard the sound. Gong. Gong. He...

"Her Game, His Rules" holds the account of seventeen-year-old Jona. After being caught for stealing, she was summoned by a judge for a hearing. Unexpectedly, her mother whom she has not seen for years showed up and had arranged a certain punishment for her with...

Memories can be great, but they can also be painful, hanging around your neck like a tightening noose. Artist Abby Warren has left her past behind her and moved to St. Louis to escape her guilt, blaming herself for her best friend Holly’s death and...

"Stay loose." This directive early in the book grabbed my thought process and pervaded every word written thereafter. It is definitely an important directive in this guide to how a beer lover can learn to appreciate the mysterious vino and its people, and perhaps help...

In the not too distant future the world is plagued with resources shortage, terrorism, climate change and debt which are crippling world economies. Crime and corruption are the new norm. Things get steadily worse when someone starts giving terrorists technology to bring down stealth bombers...

In "There Is Corn in Egypt", Joseph J Young tackles what is a sensitive topic for many people lately, that is, financial hardship. It has ramifications that reach beyond the personal; however, so many Christians are stressed when faced with the offering plate. They have...

Superheroes come in many sizes and shapes. For Rick Niece, his hero came confined in a wheelchair. "Side-Yard Superhero" is the coming-of-age tale of the friendship that emerged between a nine year old, small town paper boy and the most special of the 72 customers...

"Morgan and Clive" is another book in Karen Pirnot's thoughtful and inspiring 'Ordinary Kids series' which is intended for pre-teen kids. The main characters in these stories face hurdles. Here we meet Clive, short for Clivinia, who has just moved to the States from England...

Author Tinky Weisblat's mother Jan, better known as Taffy, died at age 93 in December of 2011. Bright, active Taffy suffered from dementia in her last months on earth. Born in 1918, Taffy graduated from Mount Holyoke College. "She was very much in the world...

"Shattered Paradise: Memoirs of a Nicaraguan War Child" is Ileana Araguti's life story. As a child, she grows up in an isolated farm house near a mystical city dubbed as the City of Mist. Her grandfather Abuelo Lalo tells her stories that ground her to...

"To Snatch a Thief" is the story of Skye Forrester, a teenager who has been arrested for theft in London in 2089. She was born in poverty and, after both of her parents passed away, she is the sole guardian of her six-year old brother....

"Mosby’s Raiders Return" is a sequel to "Legacy of the Gray Ghost" and takes off right where the first book ends. 1958 was a great year for Willie Hairston. One accomplishment was becoming Mosby University’s first colored graduate. The other major success was coaching the...

Hidden in the mountains of Utah is the Dugway facility, a top-secret government laboratory and storage station where stored toxic chemicals are leaching into the ground, and volunteer soldiers are subject to genetic experimentation. No one who has had access to Dugway is allowed out...

"Signing with a Heavy Hand and Heart, Love Mommy" is a very touching and inspirational book describing the life of a baby born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. This book describes the everyday struggles and challenges a family had to face while raising a child with...

Jane Pate is a woman with a mission. Determined, strong and focused on what she does, she is a fiercely independent person whose choice of profession is as unusual as she is. Other than being a snake catcher, she also doubles up as a writer...

George Burden seems like the average successful upper middle class man who has made a good life for himself and his family. Confession is George's tale of four days in his life during which he is forced to confront the truth about himself, his relationship...

The evil sorcerer Rothbart has killed King Stephen, and it is up to the latter’s closest friend King Wolfe to deliver the murderer’s sentence. But with King Wolfe who is a kind and compassionate ruler, he banishes Rothbart, who has sworn to some day return...